re: #244 Solomon2

Also I’m waiting to see you talk about

“Differences between peoples - how they think, personal inclinations, physical prowess, inclination to intellectual achievement, acceptable social conduct - do exist”

Do I really need to find specific examples? Isn’t it enough to prove that such difference CAN exist? Here, I imagine you’ll find this derivation particularly offensive: link

Finally I do feel that it rather is required for you to prove that specific examples do exist.

Because otherwise you’re arguing “what if?”

And if we’re going to argue “what if?”

I can respond “what if some nefarious person tried to design a robot built for trolling? This robot would not be able to perfectly mirror human thought processes but instead would be built with a pre-programmed set of conclusions. This robot would then be sent loose onto the web to troll by searching the web for any scrap of information that could possibly support, or if non was to be found, it would attempt as best it could to create some information to support its pre-programmed points.

After that it would seek out those who disagreed with those points and argue with them.

Surely this is all possible isn’t it?

Thus I put it to you, do you dream of electric sheep?

And that is why we argue with concrete examples, rather than saying “what if”.